[Interest] [OSX/iOS] Garbage collection still in place in Qt?

Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 17:57:11 CET 2015


> Am 04.03.2015 um 12:49 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> 
>> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 13:36:14 Sorvig Morten wrote:
>> ARC: Qt does not use ARC because it's not supported for 32-bit builds. It’s
>> not supported on 10.6 either, which is why the topic was brought up when we
>> dropped support for 10.6.
> 
> If we don't use ARC, why did we drop 10.6?

Could C++11 support be a reason? 10.6 doesn't have that (with the default Apple provided compiler).

Anyway, thanks for all the clarifications! Qt apparently never used th Garbage Collection API, so no problems with the Mac App Store should arise after the May 1st 2015 :)

Cheers,
  Oliver


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